birthing

Definition of birthing in English English dictionary: The act of giving birth; Of or relating to birth; Birthing means relating to or used during the process of giving birth. The hospital has pioneered the use of birthing pools. the process of giving birth to a baby; {i} process of giving birth; Anything added to raise the sides of a ship; the process of giving birth; of, or relating to birth
birthing chair: A chair designed to place a woman who is in labor in a position which facilitates childbirth
Two nurse-midwives at the Milwaukee Birth Center (MBC), Milwaukee, OR, designed a new birthing chair that has received rave reviews from the first 25 women who used it for labor and delivery.
birthing chairs: plural form of birthing chair
birthing pool: a specially designed pool, filled with warm water, in which water births take place
birthing center: A medical facility, often associated with a hospital, that is designed to provide a comfortable, homelike setting during childbirth and that is generally less restrictive than a hospital in its regulations, as in permitting midwifery or allowing family members or friends to attend the delivery. See Regional Note at birth
birthing room: An area of a hospital or outpatient medical facility equipped for labor, delivery, and recovery and designed as a natural, homelike environment. See Regional Note at birth
birth: To bear or give birth to (a child)
birth: A beginning or start; a point of origin
birth: A familial relationship established by childbirth
Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
birth: To produce, give rise to
Biological evolution created a human mind that enabled cultural evolution, which now outpaces and outclasses the force that birthed it.
birth: The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing
He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him.
birth: {n} the act of coming into life, regeneration, lineage, origin, convenient room, place to lodge in
birth: {i} act of being born; act of giving birth; descent, lineage
birth: That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable
birth: To give birth to something such as an idea means to cause it to start to exist. In 1980, strikes at the Lenin shipyards gave birth to the Solidarity trade union
birth: If, for example, you are French by birth, you are French because your parents are French, or because you were born in France. Sadrudin was an Iranian by birth
birth: When a woman gives birth, she produces a baby from her body. She's just given birth to a baby girl
birth: To bear children or to give birth
birth: The country in which a person is born
birth: {f} give birth, bear
birth: The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth
birth: The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency
birth: the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age"
birth: When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth. It was the birth of his grandchildren which gave him greatest pleasure She weighed 5lb 7oz at birth. premature births
birth: one of the two points in child development where change is relatively sudden, in this case where the child reaches the outside world after being in the womb for nine months
birth: You can refer to the beginning or origin of something as its birth. the birth of popular democracy
birth: The circumstances of ones background, ancestry, or upbringing: of noble birth
birth: being born, as in: The birth of our first child was a happy occasion
birth: Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction
birth: n The first and direst of all disasters As to the nature of
birth: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age
birth: The process of childbearing
birth: Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire
birth: Abbreviation for "going to be born in the Pure Land" which is understood by Shinran in a twofold sense: 1) instantaneous awakening, here and now, occurs with shinjin or true entrusting; and 2) attaining of buddhahood at the moment of death when one sheds all karmic limitations and becomes one with Immeasurable Life and Light to begin the salvific work in samsara to liberate all beings
birth: the process of giving birth
birth: An instance of childbirth
birth: The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son
birth: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
birth: (creating things)
birth: The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born
birth: Some people talk about a person's birth when they are referring to the social position of the person's family. men of low birth His birth, background and career show that you can make it in this country on merit alone. see also date of birth, home birth
birth: the act of being born; life starts at conception
birth: give birth (to a newborn); "My wife had twins yesterday!"
birth: the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age
birth: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child"
birth: nascence